Obesity affecting populations of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is a health emergency and these nations need to take ownership of measures to address this worrying trend’s underlying causes, said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today. The FAO chief made the remarks to participants – including leaders of […]

Urban recovery can take years and may fall outside the scope of most aid programmes. What is the future for urban humanitarian response?

Plants and algae around the planet absorb some vast amounts of CO2 from the air each year, yet there’s a natural limit to how much they can do so as to reduce the amount of excess CO2 still in the atmosphere. Science can help out, or so many scientists believe. […]

Source: UN News Service Country: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, United States of America, World La medida restringe excesivamente el derecho a solicitar asilo y pondrá en riesgo a las personas vulnerables que necesitan protección internacional y que huyen de sus países por la violencia o la persecución. La medida […]

Event Post July 16, 2019 Forman Lecture: Harold Alderman on the pathways between childhood nutrition and economic growth Katarlah Taylor Why a development focus on early childhood nutrition is key—but should look beyond narrow goals such as eliminating stunting.

Online video viewing was responsible for carbon emissions equal to those of Spain last year, and it’s time to take seriously the impacts and become “digitally sober,” according to researchers at a Paris-based think tank on climate change. The new takeaways from The Shift Project follow on the findings of […]